By Douglas V. Gibbs
According to history books the United Nations was created to establish unity and global cooperation. To institute an arena where countries could discuss their differences rather than go to war. To create peace for the world after two world wars and the rise of the Cold War.
What we are seeing from the United Nations is anything but peace. The League of Nations failed because it was a flawed model, and the United States refused to participate despite it being Woodrow Wilson’s brain child. The United Nations, the kind of global polity that the Founding Fathers warned us about during the Virginia Ratification Convention, that rose up after World War II has become, as expected, a bloated bureaucracy that claims to promote harmony, but is really just the first step toward global governance and a socialist totalitarian empire despite the fact that the whole thing was supposed to be about stopping such madness. And now, the U.N. just handed down a ruling that could ignite more conflict than any battlefield. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top court, has declared that countries can now sue each other over climate change.
That’s right. If your country burned fossil fuels to build roads, hospitals, and freedom — you’re now liable. Liable to pay reparations to countries that didn’t industrialize, didn’t innovate, and didn’t contribute to the very prosperity they now demand a slice of. In short, it’s just another Marxist Redistribution of Wealth scheme.
This is the global warming/climate change/radical environmentalism communist playbook in full swing: guilt the productive, reward the passive, redistribute the wealth and force equality among the nations – equality in misery and the death of innovation, liberty and prosperity that is. The ICJ’s advisory opinion — which, by the way, is non-binding but carries enormous political weight — opens the floodgates for lawsuits over historic emissions. Translation? If your country prospered in the 20th century, you’re now the villain of the 21st. And when that lawsuit over a non-binding opinion hits their tainted excuse of courts, communism will be handed out faster than Boasberg and the federal inferior court gang of judges can slam Trump for anything he does.
Judge Iwasawa Yuji went so far as to say that failing to develop “the most ambitious possible plans” to tackle climate change is a breach of international law. And here’s the kicker: even if your country isn’t part of the Paris Agreement — like the United States under sane leadership — you’re still on the hook. Because now, according to the UN, climate obligations are part of “customary international law”.
Folks, this is not about the environment or anything that they claim it to be. It’s about control. It’s about global courts dictating national policy to other countries as part of an international authoritarian regime. It’s about unelected international judges in The Hague deciding how much you owe for the weather, and telling countries that their sovereignty means nothing.
And who pays? You do. The American taxpayer. The same people who already fund the lion’s share of the U.N.’s operations. If you think USAID spending was bad, wait until you’re slapped with climate reparations that make foreign aid look like pocket change. Of course, I’d expect President Donald J. Trump to tell them to take a flying leap – but what happens after Trump?
This is why the United States must leave the United Nations. Not reform it. Not negotiate with it. Leave it. Abandon the failed globalist communist scheme and take our money with us. The longer we remain associated with that bureaucratic globalistic communist anti-liberty organization, the deeper we sink into a one-world swamp where sovereignty is sacrificed on the altar of climate guilt and Marxist schemes of a redistribution of wealth become legalized international law.
The UN was supposed to promote peace. Instead, it’s promoting division among the countries and international war through lawsuits and jealousy over prosperity and innovation. It’s weaponizing weather, and it’s turning prosperity into a crime. But, then again, that’s what hard left communism does – every time.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
